• Do not forget to follow your special schedule, which varies from one woman to another, in order to help maintain an adequate milk supply. There are women, who may pump every three hours, night and day, others have to pump every five or six hours and pump once if at all after going to bed.
• Keep in mind that your breast milk is only created by a supply and demand system. That is why in case if you want to increase your milk supply, you should pump more often for at least three minutes after you see there is no more milk being expressed.
• It is a very good idea to have breast pump nearby all the time, even if you do not leak. It would also be useful to place your breast pad just beneath the horn below the breast, which will help keep any spillage from spotting your clothes while you are pumping.
• When you have pumped, you should rub several drops of milk into your nipples, which will help to prevent them from getting cracked sore and dry. In case if you feel some cracking or soreness, it is possible to use hospital grade lanolin.
• It is also a good idea to place your breast milk storage bag into a small coffee cup in such a way, that the opening is towards the top, after that poor freshly collected breast milk of yours into the bag. The coffee cup will help to avoid any spillage while you are filling the bag.
• After you have pumped, do not forget to squeeze out extra air, seal your breast milk bag and label with the help of a permanent market the date, time, as well as anything unusual you may have eaten in the last several hours, which may possible cause an allergy; these are such products, as peanut butter, caffeine, Chinese food, lots of dairy, alcohol, any kind of medicine, etc. In case if a baby does not like some product, or is allergic to it, this will help you identify the correlation, thus, you will be able to learn of what you should avoid eating and / or taking while pumping your breast milk for the baby. It is natural that if a woman feeds her own baby with her breast milk, she finds out about his or he likes and dislikes for some kinds of food she has eaten before, however, this can only be imitated in case if proper as well as constant labeling is applied. Proper labeling is also considered to be of a great importance because it is the only way for the couple of intended parents to sue whether or not something has been eaten, which they would not wish their baby to ingest second hand.
• After you have labeled the bag, fold the first half inch of it down and put it on its flat side into your freezer, in case if it is zip locking. This will prevent the breast milk bag from opening as the milk gets expanded. However, in case if the breast milk bag is not zip locking, then you should better keep it in a standing up position in the special cup place in the freezer. If you must refrigerate the milk before getting it into the freezer, do it as little times, as possible. You should limit refrigeration to less than six hours before the milk is frozen. It is also necessary not to keep the frozen milk on the door of your freezer, because the siding is warmer than the rest of the freezer and in addition, this location allows for the most amount of changing of temperature.
• After the breast pump’s horns have been used, it is necessary to wash them as well as all the collection bottles and all the rest of the parts, coming in contact with them either by hand or in the dishwasher machine. It is extremely necessary to follow all the instructions, which come with the pump. The soap you use may either be antibacterial or dish soap. In every nook and cranny a special bottle brush is to be applied. After you have cleaned all the parts, rinse them with cold water and let them air dry. And never forget about keeping your breasts, hands as well as all your breast pump equipment as clean as possible, because when a breast milk is kept in a freezer, there is much more opportunity for all kinds of bacteria to grow and develop in it. You may also never touch the inside of a pre sanitized breast milk collection bag.
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